The mountains in the Bavarian foothills of the Alps towered like shadows into the sky when Michael Koch stepped outside the clinic early in the morning. It’s a cold March day, birdsong fills the air. “I had a good night,” he says. “Only woke up four times, slept through two and a half hours – I haven’t managed that for a long time.”

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